SPED at San Francisco State University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SPED coursework.

• SPED 749Medical, Educational, and Rehabilitative Implications of Visual Impairment (Units: 4)opens 8 courses (7 directly)
• SPED 754Basic Communication Skills for Learners with Visual Impairments (Units: 3)opens 8 courses (1 directly)
• SPED 758Advanced Communication Skills for Learners with Visual Impairments (Units: 3)opens 8 courses (0.5 directly)
• SPED 730Student Teaching: Special Education (Units: 9)opens 4 courses (2.5 directly)
• SPED 723Workshop: Student Teaching Support Sessions for Extensive Support Needs or Visual Impairments (Units: 3)opens 4 courses (0.7 directly)
• SPED 726Workshop: Student Teaching Support Sessions for Mild/Moderate Support Needs or Orientation Mobility (Units: 3)opens 4 courses (0.7 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate SPED work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 32 SPED and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 42 more SPED courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in SPED. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at SPED 723

  1. SPED 730Student Teaching: Special Education (Units: 9)
  2. SPED 723Workshop: Student Teaching Support Sessions for Extensive Support Needs or Visual Impairments (Units: 3)

• 5 courses deep, ending at SPED 735

  1. SPED 754Basic Communication Skills for Learners with Visual Impairments (Units: 3)
  2. SPED 758Advanced Communication Skills for Learners with Visual Impairments (Units: 3)
  3. SPED 749Medical, Educational, and Rehabilitative Implications of Visual Impairment (Units: 4)
  4. SPED 735Technology for Blind and Low Vision Students (Units: 3)

• 3 courses deep, ending at SPED 756

  1. SPED 655Basic Orientation and Mobility for Learners with Visual Impairments (Units: 3)
  2. SPED 822Methods in Orientation and Mobility III (Units: 3)
  3. SPED 756Orientation and Mobility Seminar (Units: 3)

• 2 courses deep, ending at SPED 689

  1. SPED 688American Sign Language I (Units: 3)
  2. SPED 689American Sign Language II (Units: 3)

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SPED yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SPED yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

SPED does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the SF State campus feed.